Bowling Green State University Neural and Cognitive Sciences

BGSU Department of Psychology - Neural and Cognitive Sciences

Faculty Profile
Closely related with the psychology department at BGSU, the NCS program consists of 11 faculty members with dual appointments in psychology and NCS.

Major Research Themes
The NCS faculty are involved in research in several different aspects of cognitive science and neuroscience. Research topics include: Inference and judgment, models of science understanding, language, sentence processing, auditory cognition, spatial cognition, attention, memory, vision, neural mechanisms of emotion and cognition, basal ganglia and hippocampal function.

Other Information
The doctoral program places an emphasis on developing both theoretical and experimental skills in the neural and/or cognitive sciences, and is sufficiently flexible to accommodate the varied interests of students. The program offers courses in Statistics, Neuroscience Research Methods, Cognitive Research Methods, Cognitive Psychology, Basic Neuroscience and Cognition, Visual and Auditory Perception, Neuroethology, Behavioral Ecology, Artificial Neural Networks, Human Language, and other subjects. Though students traditionally choose to focus almost exclusively on Cognitive Science or Neuroscience, the program allows students to become involved in research that integrates the two sub-fields. Training is offered both through the Department of Psychology and through the J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind, and Behavior.

Degrees
The Bowling Green State University Neural and Cognitive Sciences Program has a Ph.D. Program and a B.A/M.A. Track as well as an Undergraduate Minor.

Website
BGSU Department of Psychology - Neural and Cognitive Sciences

Address
Graduate Secretary Department of Psychology 206 Psychology Building 822 E. Merry St. Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403-0232

Telephone
(419) 372-2306

E-mail
pwatson@bgnet.bgsu.edu